Mr. X from Podcast Galaxy came up with a cool idea. He’s created a podcast website for the little guys – those really good podcasts that get no exposure and nobody is listening to. So, you won’t find the top 10 podcasters at podcast alley here – just really good podcasts you probably haven’t heard. There is even an RSS feed for the ‘casts! Check it out! http://podcastoutlaws.com

Technorati: podcast, podcasts, podcasting

MC Lars: post-punk laptop rap
I like his stuff. I have only heard the two songs he has for download here:
http://mclars.com/audio.html
I need to buy one or both of his albums.

“3D fresh not 2D (tutti) fruity”
–MC Lars

UPDATE: Just found 2 more MC Lars tracks here: http://www.truckrecords.com/downloads/catalogue.html

UPDATE2: those last two tracks SUCK

Technorati: rap, freemusic, music, mp3, hiphop

Someone recently asked me how I changed my cool guestmap 2 so that it now has a “special” icon for my location and how I made it stand out by being on top of the rest (never covered up). Instead of sending a private email to him, I figured I would post it for all to see.

First, find an icon for yourself that will stand out from the crowd. Keep it to right about the size of the other icons (the one I used is 25×23). I wanted a red pulsing X (X marks the spot) but I couldn’t find one. I opted instead for this colorful animated star gif.

Put your icon in the same directory as the other icons, but rename it to 255.gif. Now, place an icon on your map to represent where YOU are located – choose ANY icon (your new one won’t be an option). Now, you have ot go into your database and make a change.

Here are the steps I had to take – yours may vary slightly:
login to mysql console
use coolmap;
Since yours is the first entry, yours should be id #1, so now change your icon to 255:
update guestmap2 set icon=255 where id=1;
Now your icon should be your new one. Go check. I’ll wait.

The icons are ordered by date, so newer ones will be on top of older ones. Since yours is the first, it will be the oldest and therefore at the bottom of the pile. What we want to do is order by date so that yours is the LAST to be shown (and therefore on top). Now, to make your icon stay on top, you need to edit the icons.php file. You’ll see a line like this:

if(MAX_ICONS > 0) {
$extra = " ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 0,".MAX_ICONS;
}

change it to:

if(MAX_ICONS > 0) {
$extra = " ORDER BY date LIMIT 0,".MAX_ICONS;
}

that will make your icon stay on top.

Now, one more thing….by default, the guestmap fades the icons as they get older. Since my icon will always be the oldest, I don’t want it to fade, so I needed to make a change so none would fade. Look again in icons.php and change MAX_ICONS (at the top) to a large number (I used 1000) and change MIN_OPACITY from 25 to 99.

That’s it! Let me know if this works for you or if you have any questions. Much thanks goes to the author of CGM2. for writing it in the first place and then for helping me out with these changes. He also made an RSS script for me to keep an eye on the new people in the map – if anyone wants that I can share – just let me know if there is an interest.

Technorati: php, website

So, I’m reading this article on 15 things you can do with RSS and I had this idea……RSS/Email TODO lists. Here’s how:

1) come up with a unique/not-easily guessable email to use at MailBucket.org or Mailinator.com – let’s say we use todo-myvogonpoetry@emailsite
2) use Bloglines and subscribe to your RSS feed from one of the sites above – make sure you make it private (in BlogLines). For the above example, if using MailBucket, it would be: http://www.mailbucket.org/todo-myvogonpoetry.xml (you can also read the mail by using your browser to visit http://www.mailbucket.org/simple/todo-myvogonpoetry
3) Now, whenever you think of something for your TODO list, just send yourself a todo email at your mailbucket.org address and bloglines will pick it up.
4) In bloglines, when you get a new TODO item, mark it as “Keep New”. Once it is done, unmark it.

There are lots of other cool things you can do with this. here’s one: create an anonymous, spontaneous discussion/forum

Technorati: RSS ideas